THE NP CHRONICLE : 2ND OCTOBER

The NP Chronicle 

2nd October

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, which would later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence. Gandhi is considered to be the Father of the Nation in post-colonial India. During India's nationalist movement and in several decades immediately after, he was also commonly called Bapu, an endearment roughly meaning "father".

Source: Wikipedia

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"God has no religion."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Your beliefs become your thoughts,

Your thoughts become your words,

Your words become your actions,

Your actions become your habits,

Your habits become your values,

Your values become your destiny."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.

- I shall fear only God.

- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.

- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.

- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Lal Bahadur Shastri (2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the prime minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He previously served as home minister from 1961 to 1963.

As prime minister, Shastri promoted the White revolution, a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk, by supporting the Amul milk co-operative and creating the National Dairy Development Board. Underlining the need to boost India's food production, Shastri also promoted the Green Revolution in India in 1965. This led to an increase in food grain production, especially in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. He led the country during the India–Pakistan war of 1965. His slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan" ("Hail to the soldier; Hail to the farmer") became very popular during the war. The war formally ended with the Tashkent Declaration on 10 January 1966.

Source: Wikipedia

"Jai Jawan Jai Kisan."

-- Lal Bahadur Shastri 

"Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation."

-- Lal Bahadur Shastri 

"We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to a better, fuller, and richer life."

-- Lal Bahadur Shastri 

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. The Power and the Glory won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and The Heart of the Matter won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. Greene was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. Several of his stories have been filmed, some more than once, and he collaborated with filmmaker Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).

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"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

-- Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

Today is:

▪︎ International Day of Non-Violence 

▪︎ Gandhi Jayanti in India

▪︎ Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti in India 

▪︎ Birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Graham Greene